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Anthropology, Archaeology,
Biogeography, Agency, Social Action and Change, Kinship and Adoption, Ethnicity, Human Diversity; Pacific Islands
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Current Research
- Past Research - Selected Publications
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| Personal Statement |
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| Originally
trained as an
Old World archaeologist, John Terrell's interests since he joined the
staff at the Field Museum of Natural History as Curator of Oceanic
Archaeology & Ethnology have expanded to include all of the
three
other traditional sub-fields of anthropology (biological anthropology,
linguistics, and sociocultural anthropology) as well as the newer
sub-fields of museology and applied anthropology. He is still perhaps
best known, nonetheless, for his writings on the archaeology and
prehistory of the Pacific Islands, and since 1990 most of his field
work has been on the Sepik coast of New Guinea. Yet he recently began
studies closer to home, as well he is a resident of the Great State of
Wisconsin. He is using some of his time there at home to explore the
meaning of kinship & descent for Norwegian-Americans. |
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**For
a complete CV, please see Dr. Terrell's page
at the Field Museum.**
2004 'Austronesia’ and the Great Austronesian Migration. World
Archaeology 36:586-590.
2004 The ‘sleeping giant’ hypothesis and New
Guinea’s place in the prehistory of Greater Near Oceania.
World Archaeology 36:601-609.
2004 Island models of Reticulate Evolution: The ‘ancient lagoons’
hypothesis. In Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands. Scott Fitzpatrick, ed. Pp. 203-222. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood
Press.
2004 Pits, Pas and Moa Bones. In Digging into History: 50 Years of the New Zealand Archaeological Association. Matthew Campbell, ed. New
Zealand Archaeology 47(4):208-211.
2004 Anthropologizing Guns, Germs, and Steel. American Anthropological
Association Newletter 45(2):9, 11.
2003 (With John P. Hart, Sibel Barut, Nicoletta Cellinese,
L. Antonio Curet, Tim Denham, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Kyle Latinis, Rahul
Oka, Joel Palka, Mary E. D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, Patrick Ryan Williams,
Helen Haines, and John E. Staller) Domesticated Landscapes: The
Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory 10:323-368.
2003 Archaeological Inference and Ethnographic Analogies: Rethinking the
Lapita Cultural Complex. In
Archaeology Is Anthropology. Susan D. Gillespie and Deborah L.
Nichols, eds. Pp. 69-76. Archaeological Papers of the American
Anthropological Association, no. 13.
2002 (Edited with John P. Hart) Darwin & Archaeology: A
Handbook of Key Concepts. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.
2002 Tropical Agroforestry, Coastal Lagoons, and Holocene Prehistory in
Greater Near Oceania. Monbusho International Symposium. In Vegeculture
in Eastern Asia and Oceania. Shuji Yoshida and Peter J. Matthews, eds.
Pp. 195-216. JCAS Symposium Series No. 16. Osaka: Japan Centre for Area
Studies.
2002 (With Terry L. Hunt and Joel Bradshaw) On the Location
of the Proto-Oceanic Homeland. Pacific Studies 25(3):57-93.
2001, editor Archaeology, Language, and History: Essays on
culture and ethnicity. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.
2001 (With Kevin M. Kelly and Paul Rainbird) Foregone
Conclusions? In Search of ‘Papuans’ and
‘Austronesians.’ Current Anthropology 42:97-124.
2001 Archaeology, Material Culture, and the Complementary Forms of Social Life. In Fleeting Identities: Perishable Material Culture in Archaeological Research. Penelope Ballard Drooker, ed. Pp. 58-
75. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University.
2001 The Prehistoric Pacific. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on
Controversial Issues in Anthropology. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert
Welsch, eds. Pp. 114-122. Guildford, Connecticut: MacGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
2000 Anthropological Knowledge and Scientific Fact. American Anthropologist 102(4):808-817.
2000 Doing the Devil’s Work in Anthropology. Anthropology News
(October):10.
2000 A ‘tree’ is not a ‘train’:
Mistaken analogies in Pacific archaeology. Antiquity 74:331-334.
1999 Pacific Lizards or Red Herrings? Archaeology May/June 24-25.
1998 The Prehistoric Pacific. Archaeology (50th anniversary issue) 51(6):56-63.
1998 30,000 years of Culture Contact in the Southwest Pacific. In Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology. James G.
Cusick, ed. Pp. 191-219. 12th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference,
Center for Archaeological Investigations. Occasional Paper no. 25.
Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois.
1998 (With Robert L. Welsch) Material Culture, Social Fields, and Social Boundaries. In The Archaeology of Social Boundaries. Miriam Stark, ed. Pp. 50-77. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1998 (With John Hines, Terry L. Hunt, and Carl Lipo) Language steamrollers? Nature 391:547.
1997 (With Robert L. Welsch) Lapita and the Temporal Geography of Prehistory. Antiquity 71:548-572.
1997 (With Terry L. Hunt and Chris Gosden) The Dimensions of
Social Life in the Pacific: Human diversity and the myth of the
primitive isolate. Current Anthropology 38:155-195.
1996 Lapita as history and culture hero. In Oceanic Culture History: Essays
in honour of Roger Green. J. M. Davidson, G. J. Irwin, B. F. Leach, A.
K. Pawley, and D. Brown, eds. Pp. 51-66. Otago: New
Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication.
1996 (With Pamela J. Stewart) The Paradox of Human Population
Genetics at the End of the Twentieth Century. Reviews in Anthropology
25:13-33.
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